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Post-Standard News Services
6 November 1985

LOS ANGELES — COURT DOCUMENTS show that
members of the Church of Scientology secretly teach that
many of mankind's ills were caused by an evil ruler
named Xemu who
lived 75 million years ago.

Scientologists have been
trying to block the release of the documents, which they
consider secret and sacred, and about 1,500-church
members crammed into three floors of the Los Angeles
County Courthouse Monday, effectively blocking public
access to documents.

But the Los Angeles Times had already obtained access
to the documents and reported their contents Tuesday.

The documents were submitted as part of a civil case
brought by former Scientologist
Larry Wollersheim,
before lawyers for the Scientologists requested that
they be sealed.

Wollersheim charges that the organization defrauded
him by promising him higher intelligence and greater
business success through Scientology courses that cost
thousands of dollars.

In arguing to keep the court documents sealed, the
church has told its members that it could be physically
and spiritually harmful for them to learn about the
upper levels of Scientology before they have mastered
the preparatory courses. Scientology attorneys have
argued that disclosure of the materials violates the
group's religious freedom.

Details of the upper-level teachings have been
published in the personals columns of The Reader, a
weekly Los Angeles newspaper, and the daily Clearwater (Fla.)
Sun. But Michael Flynn,
a Boston lawyer who has battled Scientologists in court
for years, said, "There's never been a major
(journalism) piece on it."

However, Hubbard's secret teachings are rarely
discussed. They disclose his thoughts on why mankind has
been plagued by problems through history.

Generally, the documents suggest that a major cause
of mankind's problems began 75 million years ago, when
the planet Earth, then called Teegeeach, was part of a
confederation of 90 planets led by a tyrannical ruler
named Xemu. Then,
as now, the materials state, the chief problem was
overpopulation.

Xemu, the documents state, decided to take radical
measures to overcome the overpopulation problem. Beings
were captured on Earth and on other planets and flown to
at least 10 volcanoes on Earth.

The documents state that H-bombs far more powerful
than any in existence today were dropped on the
volcanoes, destroying the people but freeing their
spirits, called "thetans."

After the nuclear explosions, according to the
documents, the thetans were trapped in a compound of
frozen alcohol and glycol and, during a 36-day period,
Xemu "implanted" in them the seeds of aberrant behavior
for generations to come.

Before a Scientologist can learn about thetans and
how to eradicate them, he or she must go through a
progression of costly programs.

For hours Monday, Scientologists swamped workers in
the court clerk's office with hundreds of requests to
photocopy the documents.

Superior Court Judge Alfred L. Margolis, over strong
Scientology objections, had issued an order Friday
making the documents public at 9 a.m. Monday — on a
first-come, first-served basis. But by snaking the line
through three courthouse hallways, Scientologists made
sure they were the only ones to buy copies of the
materials.

Shortly before noon, Margolis, at the request of
Scientology lawyers, resealed the materials, pending a
hearing later this week.

Church President
Heber T. Jentzsch said Tuesday that news accounts of
the documents were distorted. He contended that such
piecemeal, out-of-context reporting tends to hold his
religion up to ridicule in violation of the U.S.
Constitution.

Contending the materials were stolen, he said in a
telephone interview, "Any access to these materials is
illegal." He said the church had obtained an injunction
in Great Britain against disseminating the materials. He
said he had filed suit against those he viewed as
responsible for the theft.

"We know the psychiatrists are behind it; they've
been after us for a long time," he added.

Jentzsch also said the Times had "altered, corrupted
and denigrated and twisted" the materials.

Noel Greenwood, Times deputy managing editor, said
Tuesday that the paper faithfully reported details as
they were contained in the documents.

"If he (Jentzsch) wants to show us the original
documents to show what's been altered we would be happy
to receive them," he said.